Telltale bottle.



A. L. WESTRIGH.

TELLTALE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 0, 1914.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

Appnmrou filed April 6, 1914-. Serial No. 829,978. I

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Be itlmown that I, ALPHONS I1: WEs'rnic-H, a citizen of the United States, res1d ing at Tooele, in the county of Tooele and State of Utah, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Telltale Bot tles, of which the following is a specification. V

This invention relates to a bottle carrying a device which will be displaced the removal of the stopper, from a positlon m which it is placed at the original closing of the bottle to a position within the bottle which will be taken to indicate that the bottle has been tampered with prior to reaching the consumer; and particularly to that type of such bottle closures in WlllCll the telltale device is detachably-secured to.

the inner end of the stopper and overlies a non-removable portion of the closure so that it will be detached from the stopper anddeposited within the bottle by the act of Withdrawing the stopper. Heretofore it has been proposed to provide a telltale device of this type in the form of a flat disk applied with its face against the stopper and [against the non-removable portion of the closure which the device is made to overlie to insure its detachment upon withdrawal of the stopper, but such device's-have the disadvantage of carrying the attaching thong or pin on one face so that not only is said face rendered inconvenient for app ication of the distinguishing name or mark which is desirable to apply to the telltale device, but said attaching meanswill usually cause the device to drop with its only available surface downward and, therefore, obscured from view.

One feature of my invention consists in utilizing a disk-like or other fiat form of token for the telltale device and securing the same by its edge or narrower side to the stopper, so that both sides will be available for application of the desired marking and the insignia or means of identification will thus always be presented to view when the token is deposited in the bottle.

A further advantage arising from the attachment of such a form of telltale device in the manner described, is that the circular edge is presented to the mouth of the bottle to assist in guiding the token within the mouth when the cap is originally applied.

Another objection to devices WhlCh have inserted within the neck, so that the token to be-separated from the removable stopper on extracting the latter has had to lie across the end of the plug in position to be easily impaired or displaced in shipping or handling the plugs prior to the original closing of the bottle.

Another feature of my present invention consists in making the non-removable portlon of the bottle closure in the form of a cap having a stopper opening in its top Wall terminating siifliciently above the cylinclrical Walls of the cap to adapt these cylindrical walls to serve as a protection to the readily detachable token or telltale device after the closing. cap, stopper and telltale device have been once assembled and up to the time when they are actually applied in effecting the original closure of the bottle. Another advantage arising from the use of a cap as the non-removable portion of the closure is that the cylindrical walls of the cap serve as a convenient guide to receive thetool for attaching the token to the removable stopper, thereby insuring the accurate placing of the token or telltale device in roper position.

till another advantage arises from the opportunity afforded by a surrounding cap to use whollymechanical means for preventing displacement of the'non-removable portion of the closure after it is once put in place, and still another feature of my invention relates to a particular form of locking device employed for this purpose and consisting in tangential pockets on one of the members containing locking dogs with longitudinally corrugated cylindrical surfaces adapted to engage with similarly corrugated bottle having applied thereto a closure embodying the several features of the present invention; Fig. 2 is 'a perspective view of the'bottle neck with the cap removed; Fig.

once screwed into place, the cap'is provided with a lockin flange 6, preferably at its lower end, an between this flangeand the portion of the bottle neck within the same are located locking dogs 7 in the form of toothedcylinders or rollers; the surface of the locking flange and the opposed surface of the bottle neck being toothed to correspond with the-locking dogs, so that backward turnin of the scre wcap"tends to roll the locking ogs. One of the two parts between which the locking dogs lie, preferably the neck of the bottle, is rovided with angularly disposed pockets 8 ormed by sector and radial walls, of which the sector walls are provided with the teeth. already described which co-act with the toothed surfaces of the locking dogs, so; that in the backward movement of the cap, the locking dogs are firmly wedged between the neck and the cap and reslst unscrewing of the latter, while in the screwing-on movement the lockin dogs retire within the larger portions 0 the pockets and avoid resistance to the rotation of the cap, The top 9 of the cap overlies the neck of the bottle and is provided with an opening 9 to receive a removable stopper 10; the opening 9 being of such size as to leave a shoulder 9 overhanging the mouth of the bottle.

11 represents a token or telltale device adapted to be attached to theinner end of the removable stopper 10 and of such size that it cannot be withdrawn through the opening 9. It is referably in the form of a disk or relative y thin circular body and attached by a narrow side or edge to the stopper in order to leave its faces unobstructed for appllcatlon of trade-marks, names or other indicia, and also topresent 4 and 5 are detail views of a circular or guiding end toward the mouth of the bottle in applying the cap.

The cylindrical-attaching wall of thecap' is of suflicient depth to completely house the token when in place. and to'prevent contact therewith in handling the cap or packing it for shipment and to prevent the token con tacting with the surface uponwhich the cap is stood; moreover, the cylindrical. wall of the cap may serve as a guide for an applying tool to insure accurate placing of the token upon the stopper, or accurate placing of the cap containing the stopper in position to receive the token when the latter is to be inserted rapidly and by machinery in 'manufacturing upon a large scale.

The telltale device or token may be formed of two thin disks of sheet metal dished or concaved and united by seaming their edges together, as suggested in the drawing, and when so made will be of very light and cheap construction and may thus be made to float in the liquid contents of the bottle,

' if it should be so desired. This construction of thetoken also affords a convenient means of attachment to the stopper, inasmuch as one or both of the disks may be stamped out with an integral attaching tongue 10, and this would serve to hold the token upright in-the fluid in case. it should be desired to have it float in osition to permit the inscription or marking to be conveniently read.

I claim In combination with a bottle having a screw-threaded neck and a locking pocket formedtherein, a closing cap screw-threaded to correspond. with the bottle neck and having a locking flange overlying the pocket in the neck, and a c lindrical locking dog interposed between t e locking flange and the wall of the pocket; a wall of the looking pocket opposm the locking flange being at an angle to the atter and the cylindrical surface of said locking dog and the opposed surfaces of the lockin flange and ocket between which it lies, eing toothe to drive the locking dog to binding position by rota.- tion of the cap in the direction of unscrew- The foregoing specification signed at 105 Tooele, Utah, this 16th day of March, 1914:. v

ALPHONS LJ-WESTRICH. In presence of two witnesses:

A. B. Enonann, J. A. ,KAurrMAN. 

